Month: May 2024

Please click on the image below to read our eighth Year 11 Success Bulletin for the Class of 2024 which includes the schedules for half-term revision and the final exams, plus details about the end of year celebrations as we move towards the end of an era!

We expect students to be in full uniform every day, and wearing their uniform with pride. Please click the link below to read the latest school letter for a reminder of our uniform expectations and uniform support.

Come to school 13 to 19 May to find out about services available to support you with your mental health during Mental Health Awareness Week, and how to improve your mental wellbeing.

To find out more, please visit: http://mentalhealth.org.uk/…/mental-health-awareness-week

What’s happening next week?

• Nottingham City’s Mental Health Support Team (MHST) will be here throughout the week delivering assemblies to Years 7 to 10.
• On Wednesday and Thursday lunch, our Wellbeing Ambassadors will be selling green ribbon pin badges for 50p to raise awareness and to raise money for the Mental Health Foundation. They will be joined by Be U Notts, The Mix, Base 51 and the MHST, who will be telling children about their services.
• To finish off the week, we are inviting all students and staff to wear one item of green clothing on Friday for Wear it Green Day. Swap one item of uniform for something green (blazers must still be worn).

The theme of Mental Health Awareness Week is ‘Move for your Mood’. So, on Friday lunchtime, teachers are challenging students to a penalty shootout!

There will be a small charge of 50p for 3 shots at goal to help raise money for the Mental Health Foundation.

On Thursday 25 April 2024, 26 of our Year 7 and 8 pupils took part in the UK Junior Maths Challenge. They were competing against children all over the UK, striving to solve 25 problematic mathematical puzzles. We are so proud of every single child that took part.

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Many of them chose to attend after school preparation sessions in the lead up to the event and all of them completed the challenge outside of normal school hours.

The children demonstrated a huge variety of amazing attributes during this time :

• Resilience—by keeping going even when it got tough
• Determination—to do the best that they could
• Kindness—helping each other in the preparation sessions and working together to find a solution

Every child that took part was awarded a certificate of participation. Some children scored high enough to be awarded Bronze and Silver certificates.

A special shoutout goes to Year 7’s Jessica G and Year 9’s Warren O for being our top scorers in each year group.